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Halo Reach Reveal Thread - Matchmaking/Multiplayer Details Revealed
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randomlyrossy
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I think the screens look pretty good for the most part. The enviroments look kinda iffy but I recall with Halo 3 all the character models and such seemed to be done first, if the vi-docs were anything to go by.
Character models look awesome though, the Jackals look horrible, which helps as I fucking hate Jackals already and take great pleasure in killing them :lol
I'd say the video is fake too, just doesn't feel right in a few ways to me. Also the dude made a show of pressing A and the response on screen seemed a little too delayed.
Character models look awesome though, the Jackals look horrible, which helps as I fucking hate Jackals already and take great pleasure in killing them :lol
I'd say the video is fake too, just doesn't feel right in a few ways to me. Also the dude made a show of pressing A and the response on screen seemed a little too delayed.
Blueblur1 said:
Turret, Warthog, Hornet?
All third person, all the time. Not exactly what I was getting at. The idea of quickly switching back and fourth with an animation in between and then trying to get your bearings once it's over to me sounds jarring although this might not even be the case.
AwesomeSyrup
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Doesn't look real to me. It also kinda sounds like the sound is coming from something other than the TV.Vinterbird said:
squidhands
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Quite possibly, but how else would it be done? I've never seen a scripted event like an assassination from a first person perspective, but I haven't played a whole lot of FPS games other than Unreal Tournament and Quake (just starting Half Life 2).Falt said:
Kibbles said:
I think it's fake, but Bungie does use text to speech for unfinished voice work.
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?cid=12414
That video smells fake to me.
Also, how has the EDGE stuff not been leaked already? I can walk to my local WHSmith tomorrow and buy the magazine myself, so much for the all knowing internet. Secondly, the fact that Bungie have published the Game Informer screens through EB Games signals to me that the images in EDGE will probably be the same as GI. That's not too much of a blow as it is the writing that I am looking forward to.
Also, how has the EDGE stuff not been leaked already? I can walk to my local WHSmith tomorrow and buy the magazine myself, so much for the all knowing internet. Secondly, the fact that Bungie have published the Game Informer screens through EB Games signals to me that the images in EDGE will probably be the same as GI. That's not too much of a blow as it is the writing that I am looking forward to.
Littleberu
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squidhands said:
Look at Chronicles of Riddick.
GarthVaderUK
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No Edge here today 
electricpirate
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Arnie said:
Well, EB games/gamestop owns GameInformer, so I'm not really surprised those images went up there.
randomlyrossy
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GarthVaderUK said:No Edge here today
Same
I remember Starfox Adventure for Gamecube had some crazy effect that made the grass look all 3D and cool, atleast from up close. I thought that was the future.Truant said:
Haven't seen anything like it since.
Some screens look great, others not so much. Bungie has always been bad at taking screenshots though. I want a better quality version of that first-person view shot that was in GI.
DragoNZ DZ
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Chinner said:
Unfortunately, that won't tell us anything about whether the engine is "new" or not. It can be 640p and be a graphics engine built "from the ground up." It could also be 720p w/ some level of AA and still be the old engine, albeit with several tweaks and optimizations, including a more efficient HDR format.
video said:
"murder mode"? Ridiculous. I'll call fake just on the horrible name. Even for a placeholder that's terrible. Seriously, murder mode? What do you do outside that mode, hold hands, sing along, and give the covenant hugs?
Oh god my eyes!EBGames Screens said:
Also, the environments look terrible without tons of decorators.
Well, Halo 3 looked best in motion, and with better animation and up to 40 dynamic lights, I can only see that being more true here... hope that the number of shadows have been reduced for performance reasons or others when they took the shots, because while a step up, it's not what I was hoping for. And environmental objects without AO or proper shadows just don't look right.
squidhands said:
Mirror's Edge comes to mind. Disarm vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trf-xYyLIV0
Now whether or not something like that would work in halo (multiplayer specifically) is beyond me.
The Librarian
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NOKYARD said:
squidhands
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That's pretty sweet. I'd actually rather not have a lot of scripted events in multiplayer other than what's already there, but it would be great to have something like this in the campaign. I'll have to check out Chronicles of Riddick, too.Falt said:
dilatedmuscle
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The video is absolutely positively fake. Look at his other video's he has made others. I gave him endless grief on the last "Reach Menu Leak" that everyone thought was real because of Tom Morello and the Game Informer video... But it was NOT real, i gave him endless shit about how much different his fake video was compared to the tom morello leaks and he made note of them since he made the adjustments that i had pointed out to him and everyone else on youtube over and over again LMAO but he still got a few things wrong ( the giant rock and the rivers). Aside from the differences, bungie would never have such insanely terrible presentation.
My favorite too, shows of the strong points in the game, which are the characters. I hope the environments get kicked up a notch.
Dax01 said:Jesus, dude. You got a lot of patience and it really pays off. Looks fantastic.
And holy moly, this thread grew four pages over night. Just got finished reading through them all. As for the screenshots, the new AR looks really good - the more I see it, the more I like it.
Out of all the screenshots, this one is probably my favorite:
My favorite too, shows of the strong points in the game, which are the characters. I hope the environments get kicked up a notch.
Seriously. I'm not a fan of the way Reach looks, but this is such a stupid thing to compain about.EazyB said:
I'd rather see flat grass, than a turd like the simple "3D" grass effect Ubisoft put in Assassin's Creed II for no good reason. They ended up making the game's more open areas look far worse than they did in the first game.
That's really pretty and smart. Impressive.NOKYARD said:
Self Induced
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"WAIT. I DE-TECT SOME-THING." Sounds like whoever wrote Cortana's dialogue in Halo 1 is back on the team.Vinterbird said:
And since its a Reach multiplayer beta, wouldn't you just enter a lobby when you hit A on anything in the main menu?
So stupid its awesome. It just rolls off the tongue so beautifully.DragoNZ DZ said:
I'm liking the new AR too, but it might be because of enhanced textures on the weapon itself and not necessarily the design. Its lookin snazzy regardless.Dax01 said:
Fake!Vinterbird said:
I was half expecting it to be from the take home test. If so, Bungie needs to do something sneaky like make each copy have it's own unique reticule to make the leaks easier to catch.
also, not loaded from the ODST Extras menu.
I try to clear a spot before each GAF Customs night. I am trying to pare my FL and add people who actually play. A few nights ago i had 40 friends onlinesquidhands said:
mostly playing Grifball, MW2 & 1 vs 100
SecretBonusPoint
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Direct-feed of the screenshots has underwhelmed me. I think the Spartan models look really great (some nifty detail on them), but the environments do not look to have taken any kind of leap from Halo 3, which is a shame as they still look very last gen in their oddly structured rocks and flat textured grass.
I certainly hope that the final game will be AA'd out of the ass to match the Screenshot Renderer's smoothing at the very least.
I certainly hope that the final game will be AA'd out of the ass to match the Screenshot Renderer's smoothing at the very least.
What's so bad about AC 2's vegetation?
It's the same tech that was used in Far Cry 2 and it looks beautiful in my opinion.
It's the same tech that was used in Far Cry 2 and it looks beautiful in my opinion.
bobs...onGaf
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Graphically I still think Halo 3 looks alright so maybe im easily pleased but I dont think Reach looks too bad, some of the environments look a little bland though.
Actually the environments worry me, the level design from Halo 3 didnt really impress me all that much, I would hate to have a repeat of the same wharehouses on Reach, its a planet theres so much we can see.
Odst was a little better though so im guessing it will be good.
That map looks really cool by the way, how do you get into Gaf customs?
Actually the environments worry me, the level design from Halo 3 didnt really impress me all that much, I would hate to have a repeat of the same wharehouses on Reach, its a planet theres so much we can see.
Odst was a little better though so im guessing it will be good.
That map looks really cool by the way, how do you get into Gaf customs?
bobs99 ... said:
At the end of the day it's multiplayer that I'm going to buy Reach for, and I can't say I've ever found Halo 3's MP fidelity too distracting to play. You forget about it as soon as you get into a good game.
If Reach MP is a little crisper and runs at a higher framerate then that's all I need. If they show off a bunch of perfect remakes of the best Halo 2+3 maps before release I'll fly to Bungie and grab their front door.
AwesomeSyrup
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Hopefully these ARs sound like the Halo CE AR. That thing sounded like a fucking beast.Dax01 said:Out of all the screenshots, this one is probably my favorite:
rollingstart
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Is the entire game supposed to be desaturated like that? Any chance you can turn it off to look more like Halo 3? I didn't think Halo 3 was a good looking game but I appreciated how it was colorful and all that.
AwesomeSyrup
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I doubt it's something you can change. Of course I can't speak for Bungie but it would seem they removed some of the color to please the people who complained about the abundance of color in Halo 3.Linkzg said:
I really, really hope the scarabs are used in the open environments with improved AI.
I had a blast fighting them in halo 3, was actually my favorite activity in the game. I have piloted every vehicle in the game onto a moving scarab except for the scorpion. Blowing up scarabs with a chopper is so fun.
If they do bring them back, I really hope they do more than stamp around in a small area. Have those bitches chase us across the country side!
Also, something something graphics.
-edit- just noticed the extended muzzle on the AR. Given the games larger scale, hopefully the AR will act more like an actual rifle this time around. Obviously not as accurate as the DMR or BR, but something akin to stereotypical video game AK-47 or LMG.
I had a blast fighting them in halo 3, was actually my favorite activity in the game. I have piloted every vehicle in the game onto a moving scarab except for the scorpion. Blowing up scarabs with a chopper is so fun.
If they do bring them back, I really hope they do more than stamp around in a small area. Have those bitches chase us across the country side!
Also, something something graphics.
-edit- just noticed the extended muzzle on the AR. Given the games larger scale, hopefully the AR will act more like an actual rifle this time around. Obviously not as accurate as the DMR or BR, but something akin to stereotypical video game AK-47 or LMG.
bobs...onGaf
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urk said:
So what are the odd's on some Mp3's of the gun sounds this coming weekly update
As for the saturation thing im very worried that Bungie are trying to please all the Halo haters, so are toning down the look of the game which wont please them because they prefer COD/ Gears anyway and will just upset the fans that love the brightness of Halo.
Neverender
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Arnie said:
Well EB/Gamestop own GameInformer so that's why they have the first screens. Possible that Edge have something different.
MS should've let Rare develop an incredible in-house engine for most of their first party games(except for maybe the racing titles) and share tech between the developers. I can't believe they handled Rare the way they did and didn't benefit from their technical brilliance.pringles said:
These Halo: Reach shots look rather poor, ODST looks better to me because of the atmosphere and setting. They really took advantage of the lighting effects of the old engine. Now this... well Halo 3 comes to mind. Bungie and friends have been hyping the new engine and tech for a while now and this is the result? Again I'm not impressed... yet.